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No, but random does mean uncertain, and the uniform distribution has maximal entropy. In other words, uniformly distributed numbers are most random, colloquially, and so you can improve your ability to generate random numbers by sampling from a more unform distribution.

Also, just because intelligence is described with normal distributions, it is not at clear that it can be.



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